Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Simple Website Design Principles for Internet Marketing

An essential element of the success of any Internet Marketing 
campaign is the ability to not only generate traffic to your 
Website, but capturing the interest of the visitor once he's 
on your site. The are a number of techniques that the best 
Internet Marketing Strategies employ to ensure that their 
Website Design encourages a user to linger.

To a great degree all Internet marketing strategies - article 
marketing, blogging, search engine optimization and email 
marketing, depend on the quality of your Website design to 
close the sale.

As you design and continually refine your Website, maintain 
constant focus on what you are trying to accomplish, what 
message you are trying to communicate. All the principles 
in the world are worthless without vigilance to your ultimate 
objective.

Here are five fundamental rules of thumb to observe to make 
sure your Website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at 
a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with 
words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they 
are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not 
let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! 
Give them the value of your site up front without the splash 
page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to 
ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable 
Website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content 
and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let 
your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being 
pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward 
navigation menu so that even a young child will know how 
to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus 
or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't 
know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you 
will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are 
in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant 
information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't 
confuse your visitors because confusion means "I'm outta here"!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, 
reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not 
annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If 
you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control 
over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

If you analyze every aspect of your Website Design and ask the 
question - 'does this contribute to my ultimate objective?' - 
you're Website should evolve into a significant contributor for 
your Internet Marketing efforts.

1 comment:

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